CWCMS and NCO prepare for track seasons

Thursday

Apr 11, 2013 at 5:30 PM

Carmi-White County Middle School and Norris City-Omaha came together for a practice track and field meet at Carmi-White County High School Tuesday, April 9. Boys and girls in sixth, seventh and eighth grade competed in the event from both schools to fine tune their skills before heading into the regular season.

Carmi-White County Middle School and Norris City-Omaha came together for a practice track and field meet at Carmi-White County High School Tuesday, April 9. Boys and girls in sixth, seventh and eighth grade competed in the event from both schools to fine tune their skills before heading into the regular season.

Eighth grader Dakota Mullins was the top thrower in the discus with 84.6 feet. CWCMS's Andrew Burnett was second followed by Kemper of NCO in third.

In the long jump, Easton Stewart of CWCMS had the longest distance of 16'4 for first followed by Trenton Welch and NCO's Edwards.

In the track events, CWCMS's Jacob Howard was first in the hurdles with a time of 19.78 seconds followed by Dylan Courty of CWCMS and Kurtis Newman.

The 400M run was won by Bryce Northcott in 68.71. He was joined by CWCMS teammates Andrew Hunsinger and Seth Mann.

Seventh grader Colton Brown of CWCMS was very impressive in his races, winning the mile in 5:49 over Howard and Hollingsworth. Brown also won the 800M in 2:40.31 over Matt Rice and Keelan Shaffer, both of CWCMS.

In the shorter distances, Burnett won the eighth grade 100M dash in 13.75 seconds followed by Peyton Turrentine and Corbett. Trenton Welch won the seventh grade 100M in 13.44 over Stewart and Edwards. Troy Yang won the sixth grade 100M in 14.04 over Tyler Stallings and Will Pugsley.

Janes Smith, who went to state last season in the sixth grade 100M dash, won the girls division of the 100M dash for seventh graders. Smith also won the 200M dash.

In the relay divisions, the team of Northcott, Drew Huffer, Welch and Stewart won the seventh grade relay in 1:53.88 and the team of Josh Baker, Kaenon Highwood, Tyler Stallings and Yang won the sixth grade relay in 57.63.

The 800M relay team of Ryan Endsley, Turrentine, Tristan Buchanan and Burnett won in 1:55.31. The 1600M relay was won by Rice, Brown, Stewart and Burnett in 4:40.

Scoring was not kept for the practice meet. The CWCMS track teams have a meet scheduled with Mt. Vernon today at CWCHS. The field events will be held first at 4 p.m. followed by the track events.

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